I am deeply, deeply sorry for the lateness! I've had some troubling events to get through, so your understanding will be much appreciated! :)
Chapter 8 has been edited, due to a plothole in the story, please re-read that chapter before you read this! (And I'm sure some of you might require a refresher xD)
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God of chaotic destruction, What exactly is a chaos god? And you'll find out what happens to Aqua probably in the next chapter. :)
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My eyes widened at the noises behind me.
I pushed myself to go faster, to keep up with Aqua and to get away from the undead which were following me. I silently hoped that, if there were any, Aqua would take out any zombies in front. I had no means of defence, unless by miracle I found something I could use as a makeshift weapon, seeing as I had lost my gun earlier.
I rounded a corner and saw Aqua run through the door to the stairs. A zombie staggered backwards, a clear sign she had shoved it. I quickly made my way over through the door before the being could regain its sense of balance.
"Aqua! Wait!" I yelled after her as she ran down each flight of stairs. I ran after her, missing a couple of steps each time.
Aqua ran through another door, on what I think was the third floor of the building.
I wondered where she was going. If she was going out, then wouldn't she go through the main entrance? I figured she must be up to something, which made me all the more determined to catch up with her.
By the time I went through the door, I was panting hard. It was a miracle that I hadn't sprained my ankle, or worse, broken it! I looked down the corridor, just seeing her go through a set of double doors. I ran towards them, and burst through.
"Aqua! Please stop!" I panted, hands on my knees.
"What the hell do you want, brat? I already told you, there's no way I'm giving you my emerald!" She snapped.
I noticed we were in the cafeteria. Everything looked tidy and in it's correct place. Chairs were neatly tucked under the tables and the floor looked spotless - there were no signs of the chaos outside at all! Why, of all places, did Aqua choose to come here?
"Look, all we want is to borrow it! It's a matter of life and death, why can't you see that!" I replied.
"And why can't you see that I'm not helping you. Do I have to spell it out for you?" She spat.
I sighed, sick of dealing with her attitude. Looks like Shadow and I would have to find an emerald elsewhere. So much for persuasion.
"Alright, fine. You can keep the emerald, but you'll have to find your own way out of this mess." I replied, trying my best to keep my temper in check.
Aqua smirked. It seemed as if that's exactly what she wanted to happen. "Hang on a second. Why are we in here? Why didn't you get away from this place?"
The cat wandered over to the doors, dragging one of the tables with her. "I need to meet with someone, and this is the floor with the least numbers of them, so I'm taking refuge in here." She put the table firmly against the doors and then went back for another. "Not that it's any of your business anyway."
I frowned. This girl was full of surprises.
"Who are you meeting? And just how am I going to get out of here?"
The cat shrugged, adding a third table to the barricade. "Like I said, it's none of your business. I think there's a door in the kitchen. You can go through there. Speaking of which, you should be going now. You're annoying me, idiot." She stepped back and dusted off her hands. "There. That should keep them out for a while."
I rolled my eyes. She was right, I should be going. I needed to get back to Shadow. I felt a little guilty at snapping at him, when all he was doing was protecting me. I hoped he would be ok.
"Well, I'm sorry that Shadow did what he did and…good luck, Aqua." I honestly don't know why I said that, but she really didn't deserve what he did to her.
"Hmph, whatever." Was the reply I received. I made my way across the room and into the kitchen at the side. There was a door in the corner, so at least I wouldn't be stuck in here. I grabbed a large carving knife from the counter, just in case I encountered anything on my way to Shadow.
Feeling satisfied, and with new found bravery, thanks to my weapon, I placed my hand on the handle, ready to open the door.
"One…two…three."
As soon as I got to three, I felt a huge weight knock me forwards, and I banged my head on the door. Dropping the knife, I grabbed the arms around my neck and, summoning all my strength, threw the thing off of me.
I turned around, and saw a figure hunched over on the ground. It slowly raised its head and looked at me.
I felt sick. Its skin was a disgusting brown colour and its eyes were yellow, with tiny black pupils in the middle. What was left of its hair was matted and greasy with blood. This had to be the most disgusting sight I had seen so far.
It definitely wasn't any normal zombie.
Once again, the fear I was feeling made me freeze in place. I wanted so badly to pick up the knife, or call out for Aqua.
I felt my palms sweat and my breathing quicken, a sure sign I was panicking. The creature looked as if it could sense my fear, and kept on staring at me. After a few agonizing seconds of eye contact, its mouth slowly broke out into a sickly grin, showing its revolting red-stained teeth.
It was truly a fearsome sight.
I couldn't stand it any longer. Wrenching the door open, I attempted to make a run to safety. However, before I could even step foot out of the door, I felt the familiar weight on my back and I was pulled back inside. Screaming, I struggled to get the creature off of me, and did my best to navigate to where Aqua was, hoping she'd help me.
"AQUA! HELP!" I yelled, stumbling through the doors and pushing the creatures head back to stop its attempt to bite me.
I saw the aqua cat sitting on the barricade she had made, and staring at me in horror. I suddenly tripped, landing with a painful thud on my front. The creature growled and attempted to bite me again. I was struggling to keep its head away from me, because I was laid on my front. I screamed once again and felt the beast being ripped off me. I exhaled loudly, glad to be free of its grasp. Standing up, I saw Aqua push it to the floor, pull out a gun and aim it at its head. But before she could pull the trigger, it leapt away and clung onto the ceiling.
"Amy! Did you shut the door?" The cat asked, trying to get a steady aim on the vile creature, which was jumping around.
"No, I didn't have chance! That thing jumped on me as I was trying to get out."
"YOU IDIOT!" She shrieked, narrowly avoiding her target as it dived at her. "Now you're going to let more of them in!" She fired a couple shots but all of them missed.
My eyes widened. She was right, and now I may have put us both in grave danger.
"Forget it! It's been done now. Go and shut the door before it's too late while I deal with your stupid mistake"
I was about to open my mouth to retort but I knew she wouldn't listen. Instead of wasting my breath, I ran over to the kitchen, hoping Aqua would have my back while I did what I had to.
As I got to the entrance of the kitchen, I stopped in my tracks. Aqua was right, it was too late.
The undead had managed to get in.
A large crowd of flesh-eaters were making their way towards me, teeth baring and growling at the thought of a fresh meal. I gulped and ran back towards Aqua, hoping she might just have a plan.
"Aqua, they're inside! What do we do?" I screamed, trying to keep the panic out of my voice, but to no avail. Said cat was still firing at the demon, an exasperated look on her face.
"What do you think, you idiot? WE FIGHT!" She growled, quickly reloading her weapon.
"Well, what the hell am I supposed to fight with?" I replied over her gunfire.
"Find something in the kitchen!"
I growled, exasperated. Turning back around, I saw the zombies getting even closer, almost within an arms length of me.
Gasping, I quickly dodged the arms grabbing for me and darted for the counters which were separating the kitchen from the dining area. I did my best to leap over them, but ended up crashing to the floor on the other side. I stood up, and noticed the undead were coming through the kitchen door in large waves.
I scanned the room, frantically searching for anything I could use. A glinting blade caught my eye, which was swinging from above. A meat cleaver, that would do the trick! Grabbing it, I made my way over to the counters again, narrowly dodging a zombies' swing for me. Leaping back over, and ending up in a heap on the floor again, I quickly got to my feet and rushed over to Aqua, slicing at the zombies' head that was about to grab her from behind.
"Thanks, pinky." She said.
"No problem, Aqua." I replied, deciding to forget the nickname. Now wasn't the time for arguments. Aqua and I had to work together to survive, and arguing would no doubt cause problems.
Turning my attention back to the horde, I mustered up my courage, and dashed for the one at the front, slicing the cleaver at its neck. I was momentarily splattered with blood, as it crashed to the floor, blood still oozing out of the fresh wound. I felt my stomach churning, and I willed myself to keep going.
The next zombie came stumbling towards me, snarling and glaring at me. Raising my weapon, I hacked three times at its neck, the third swing partially detaching the head from the neck, until it was hanging from ragged pieces of flesh. I then kicked the body to the floor.
Two down, god knows how many more to go!
Zombie after zombie, I slashed, hacked and swung at their heads and necks, and body after body was falling to the floor.
Stealing a glance at Aqua, I noticed she had not yet to managed to kill the strange beast. What was it? Some kind of super zombie or something!? I frowned and tried to stay focused on my part of the job.
My ears were ringing with the sound of Aqua's constant gunfire, and I was starting to feel tired and weak. Soaked in blood, I miraculously found the energy to attack another of the undead that was creeping towards me.
My weapon was unrecognisable; it too covered in blood with bits of brain and skin dangling, like they were some kind of morbid decorations. I brought my arm back as far as it would go, waiting for the zombie to get close enough. When the timing was right, I swung my arm forward, but a jolt of pain put my aim off, and instead of hitting the throat, the cleaver impaled itself in the zombie's head.
I let out a cry of pain, and tried to wrench the blade free. I tugged with what little strength I had left, doing my best to avoid the grabs for me. With one final tug, I tried again to withdraw my weapon, but instead of pulling it out of the skull, I had ripped off the head!
I stumbled backwards, my mouth open in shock at what I had done. The body fell to the floor, blood spurting from the neck like a fountain.
I stood staring at my weapon not quite believing what just happened.
Realisation seemed to hit me and I screamed, stupidly throwing the weapon away from me. It clattered to the floor and the head rolled off, landing at the feet of a zombie. Not only was my strength beginning to weaken, I was now completely defenceless against the undead.
I shot a glance at Aqua, who looked as equally exhausted as me. Our only hope was Shadow, and only chaos knows where he is right now. I longed to be back safely with him, even if it meant he would most likely be angry at me for running away.
Suddenly, the sound of Aqua's gunfire stopped.
"AMY! BEHIND YOU!"
Snapping out of my thoughts, I quickly spun around, only to be tackled by the creature that Aqua was so desperately trying to kill. We crashed to the floor and I let out a yelp of pain.
The demon attempted to gnaw at my face, but I managed use my arm to push it back. Even so, it was millimetres away from tearing my face off. The thing was thrashing around, and I knew with every passing second, my strength was weakening considerably.
At this moment, death seemed inevitable and I would have given anything to be in Shadow's arms. Time seemed to slow and I could feel my eyes drooping with fatigue.
All of a sudden, I heard Aqua yell out, and more gunfire sounded, only this time, I knew it wasn't her. Craning my neck to look around, I saw zombies dropping to the floor as bullets ripped through them. Through my blurry vision, I saw something black moving towards me.
"Shadow…" I whispered, smiling to myself. A single shot sounded and the beast pinning me suddenly stopped moving. I felt blood slowly trickling down my face, but I was too tired to care.
The body was suddenly thrown off of me, and the last thing I saw were Shadow's blood red eyes staring at me before I succumbed to the blissful darkness.
So there it is!
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